Episode 6 CineMinis: A CINEMANIACS Short

# Want to ride a bike across the face of the moon?

# Levitate your house with a bunch of balloons?

# Feel zero gravitation A robot transformation

# You're a cinemaniac

# Do you long to hear the roar of an extinct dinosaur?

# To explore the flora in your very own Pandora

# Feel the urge to sing Form a quest for the ring

# To escape from a drone Or to be home alone

# Then roll out the red carpet And turn down the lights

# Grab yourself a seat and hold on tight

# We're mad about movies We're crazy for film

# We're cinemaniacs

# Cinemaniacs

# Cinemaniacs. #

-Hello, everyone! I'm Oli White and this is Cinemaniacs.

-CineMinis.

Coming up, first film stories from famous actors.

I just remember being so excited to be on a movie set.

It changed my life because I got paid.

-Load of cameramen and it was really, like...

-Whoa!

Why Wimpy Kid is such a star.

He was afraid that the kids, the little kids, were peeing in the pool.

I'm peeing.

And can Michael Sheen, Super Actor, speak like a true Geordie?

-Over the top of the freezing down.

-Over the top of the freezing down.

-Rusty-looking cook stove.

-Very good.

I don't even know what the accent was.

BUZZING

What do you think? This is awesome! My very own movie cloud.

If you want to know how to make your own movie cloud, watch this.

Cloud, take me away. Mmmmm!

Introducing Mr Mike Tucker, here to show you how to create

special effects Hollywood-style in The Secrets Of Movie-Making.

Today, we're going to show you how to make your very own movie clouds,

so grab a couple of friends and let's get started.

This week, we're going to do stormy skies and clouds.

This effect is a really impressive one and,

if you've ever seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind, you'll know why.

You'll need a fish tank, a jug, water and saltwater, milk,

pegs and some black bin liners.

OK. Step one is to get our saltwater into the tank

and fill it up to a layer where we want our cloud to happen.

Step two.

We need to make sure that the two types,

the saltwater and the fresh water, don't mix,

so we're going to use a bit of bin liner to help separate the two.

-Just clip it to the edge of the tank.

-Step three.

Carefully start pouring the fresh water in on top of the plastic.

-Step four.

-Right, we now need to do the tricky bit,

which is get the plastic out without disturbing the two layers of liquid.

So, we need to try

and slide this plastic out over the top of the water.

Right.

-That's what we call an inversion layer.

-Step five.

Now we've let that settle a little bit,

we need to get our milk in there.

Now, pour it in from one end,

quite slowly, in a stream,

and then see what happens when it starts to hit...

-Wow!

-You'll now see that the clouds are travelling between the saltwater

and the fresh water.

-Wow.

-It really looks like clouds.

Step six.

You can create a background by sticking a drawing

or photo behind the fish tank,

or you can just make a background with one of your own bin liners.

We can clip in place with our pegs...

OK, so, if you come down low, so you're looking up at it,

try and avoid seeing your reflection.

And start to get really fancy.

You could add food colouring into the milk,

in which case you'll get coloured clouds.

And if that isn't enough for you, try this.

By taking something like a torch,

you can start getting things like lighting effects.

Oh, wow!

Thunder!

And that's how you make your very own movie clouds.

Imagine you've made your first film. What was it like?

One word that sums up making my first film is excitement.

It changed my life because I got paid.

I just remember being so excited to be on a movie set

because it's not something you really get to experience very often.

I was shocked actually at the size and the scale of the production.

There are so many different people.

-Loads of cameramen and it was really, like....

-Whoa!

-Props.

-Grips.

-Like that.

-Lighting crew.

-Art department.

-Sound operators.

-It was enormous.

Runners, everybody.

You look at some of the names on the call sheet on a morning,

just a who's who of the best British acting talent, and you're just

so nervous about making a mistake or messing up in front of these people.

Now, let's head behind the scenes.

ParaNorman.

Peace, man!

As you were, soldier.

Sir, yes, sir.

My name's Sam Fell. I'm an animation director.

Everyone in the real world thinks I'm a freak

and, you know what, maybe they're right.

I'll tell you a secret about Norman. He doesn't just have one face.

He has thousands of faces.

Thousands of faces that give him millions of expressions.

And how that works is, we can take his face off.

And then what we can do is put on other faces,

so this face was from when he was cleaning his teeth.

A thing that gave us

the most incredible range of expressions is that we split

his faces in half,

so we were able to change his mouth

separately from his eyebrows,

and then we had an incredible little team of people painting out

that line, frame by frame, so it looked like one face again.

Hi, my name's Jeff Kinney,

the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and I'm a cinemaniac.

Finding the actors was very difficult at first.

We had to start with our Greg.

School isn't even out yet.

Maybe we should come back.

Some of the actors looked a lot like my characters,

like Rowley Jefferson is a really good approximation.

Geronimo!

When you sit people down in a theatre,

you have to change things up to make sure the story really has

an impact, so we did things like added the mother and son dance

to really amp up the conflict between Greg and Rowley.

There was one day on set when something really funny happened.

Zac Gordon did not like being in the swimming pool.

Greg, honey, go help your brother.

Because the water was this off colour

and he was afraid that the kids, the little kids, were peeing in the pool.

-What's so funny?

-I'm peeing.

And then, as a joke,

the girl who played Holly Hills threw a candy bar into the pool

and then she said, "There's something in the pool"

and everybody on set just completely freaked out.

It was kind of gross, but it was very funny.

I think there will be a fourth movie.

And I really hope that The Long Haul gets made because it would take us

outside the school environment completely, put the characters

out on the road, it would be a totally different kind of story.

It'd be really fresh.

I think we could get away with keeping the same parents

and maybe even Rodrick, but the kids who played Greg and Rowley in the

first movies, they've grown up,

but Greg is a cartoon character

and he'll stay the same age for ever.

Matthew and James, specialist subject - Fantastic Mr Fox.

What are the names of the three farmers who are after Mr Fox?

-Boggis, Bunce and Bean.

-According to Mr Fox, what do beagles love?

BOTH: Blueberries.

True or false - the farmers shot Mr Fox's tail off

while he was in the chicken house?

-BOTH: False.

-What kind of animal is Coach Skip?

A...rabbit?

Correct answer - a ferret.

Stella, specialist subject - Mary Poppins.

What is the name of the sweep?

Er, Bert.

What is the surname of the children Mary looks after?

-Banks.

-What is the name of the film

released in 2013 about the making of Mary Poppins?

Saving Mr Banks.

It's a jolly what with Mary?

Holiday.

-What song do the sweeps dance to on the rooftops?

-Er...

Chim Chim Cher-ee Chim Chim Cher-ee Chim Chim Cher-oo?

Correct answer - Step In Time.

Alisha, specialist subject - Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

-Who has trouble whistling in the group?

-Erm...Russ.

What does Mr Thompson plan to do in his spare time with his sons?

Fishing.

-What type of creature attacks Antie?

-Scorpion?

Which family owns a cat?

The Thompsons.

What does Amy want to do with her friends?

-Um...go to the shopping mall?

-What sport does Ron enjoy playing?

Baseball.

What does Nick have for breakfast after

-he refuses to eat the burnt toast Amy makes?

-Er, a biscuit.

What was the reason the shrinking machine started working correctly?

Because Ron hit a baseball...in it.

Alisha, you gave no incorrect answers.

You've conquered the Rock Hard Quiz.

And now the star of Alice in Wonderland, Tron

and Twilight, Michael Sheen, Super Actor!

I am being put to the test.

Can I replicate an accent, do an accent

and convince those judges out there that I am from that place?

This is the Accent Challenge.

In three minutes I'm going to have to learn how to do this accent...

With the help of voice coach Catherine.

Learning an accent is all about brain, ear, mouth connection,

so how often you've heard it, how often has it been in your ear?

I am going to be put up against people doing their natural voice,

what they speak like.

I think Michael is incredibly brave.

In fact, I don't know many actors who would put

-themselves in this position with an accent.

-'Hm, tell me about it!

'I have to succeed in two out

'of three voice rounds to win today's challenge.

'The judges will hear two voices on this speaker phone -

'one will be the real accent and the other will be me

'trying to do the accent!'

It's time for The Challenge.

You've done this one before?

Not really, but I've just heard it a bit.

OK. Now, THs, it's halfway between a T-H and a D. It's not quite a D.

-IRISH ACCENT: It's good, Mother.

-Yeah, that's it.

-Over the top of the freezing down.

-Over the top of the freezing down.

'That's learning time up, so bring on The Challenge!'

Cornfields were yellow. The oats were green.

The hay had been put up in stacks in the green meadows.

The cornfields were yellow. The oats were green.

The hay had been put up in stacks in the green meadows.

I think the first one's real

because it was...it seemed a bit more like the actual person.

'After the first round, there are five votes for voice one

'and only one vote for voice two.

'Whoo-hoo!

'Voice one was me, not the real

'thing, which means the point is mine!'

The hay had been put up in stacks in the green meadows.

'Next up...'

It's Geordie. 'All the way from Newcastle.

'This one's tough.'

-NEWCASTLE ACCENT:

-Rusty-looking.

-Rusty-looking cook stove.

-Very good.

Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies

with Uncle Henry, who's a farmer, and Aunt Em, who's the farmer's wife.

Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies with

Uncle Henry, who was a farmer and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.

I think the first one was a bit, like, over the top.

The second one did sound normal in a way.

'After the second round, they all think the first voice was fake. Argh!

'They were right. Voice two was the real Geordie, so I lose that point.'

Aunt Em was the farmer's wife.

'One round all, but this is for The Challenge.'

Finnish! I've never heard anyone from Finland speak.

Over to you.

The thing is, English is a second language, so that means

they're going to pronounce things they way that it's read.

They're going to pronounce all the Rs because they're in the spelling.

"Dear little girl," you know,

they're all going to be in the spelling.

Once, she gave her a little cap of red velvet,

so she was always called Little Red Riding Hood.

Once, she gave her a little cap of red velvet,

so she was always called Little Red Riding Hood.

I didn't even know what the accent was.

I would like to apologise to the entire nation of Finland.

-I think the second one's real.

-Second.

-Second.

'The votes are in and, wow, the second voice was me! Result!

'That's two-one to me!'

She gave her a little cap of red velvet.

'Today's challenge started with me learning how to speak Irish

'and ended with me proving that I am a man of 1,000 accents!

'Well, at least two.

'And that means, for today at least, I am Michael Sheen - Super Actor!'

And that really is almost it, except to tell you that

when they made ET The Extra-Terrestrial, they created

the sound effect of ET walking from using a T-shirt filled with jelly...

SQUELCHING

..to make it extra squishy. Ooh!

Phone...home!

Ooh, yum. I'm Oli White and you've been watching Cinemaniacs.

CineMinis.